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Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children

Frowd, Charlie D.; Bruce, Vicki; Chang, Helen Y.; Plenderleith, Yvonne; McIntyre, Alex H.; Hancock, Peter J.B.

Authors

Charlie D. Frowd

Vicki Bruce

Helen Y. Chang

Yvonne Plenderleith

Peter J.B. Hancock



Abstract

We have developed a novel software program
called ‘Predict Your Child’ that, given photographs of
potential parent faces, generates plausible looking children.
The parent photographs are imported into a PCA-based
model of facial appearance to give a set of face parameters
that can be mixed together to produce offspring faces. The
program is intended for entertainment and has been used
commercially, with customers emailing photographs of
parents to be bred. In this paper, we describe the system,
developed from an evolutionary facial composite system
called EvoFIT, outline some of the

Citation

Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Chang, H. Y., Plenderleith, Y., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. (2008). Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children. Journal of multimedia, 3(1), doi:10.4304/jmm.3.1.28-35

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date May 1, 2008
Publication Date May 1, 2008
Deposit Date Feb 2, 2017
Journal Journal of Multimedia
Print ISSN 1796-2048
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 1
DOI https://doi.org/10.4304/jmm.3.1.28-35
Keywords Media Technology; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Artificial Intelligence
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/680499